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Inspired by movie streaming services such as Netflix or Hulu, a Southwest Research Institute scientist developed a technique to look for stars likely to host giant, Jupiter-sized planets outside of our solar system. She ...

A Russian cosmonaut and astronauts from the United States and Canada returned to Earth after spending more than 200 days on board the International Space Station.

NASA astronaut Anne McClain and two of her Expedition 59 crewmates returned to Earth from the International Space Station Monday, landing safely in Kazakhstan at 10:47 p.m. EDT (8:47 a.m. Tuesday, June 25, local time) af...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team studied the orientation of distant solar system bodies to bolster the "streaming instability" theory of planet formation.

NASA Television will broadcast launch and prelaunch activities for the Ascent Abort-2 flight test of the launch abort system for NASA's Orion spacecraft's, which will help pave the way for Artemis missions with astronaut...

In what Elon Musk is calling their “most difficult” mission so far, SpaceX launched the Falcon Heavy rocket for the third time. The launch took place at 2:30 am ET Tuesday from a launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in...

NASA has selected Bechtel National, Inc., of Reston, Virginia, to design and build a second mobile launch platform, known as Mobile Launcher 2 or ML2, for Exploration Ground Systems at the agency's Kennedy Space Center i...

On Tuesday, July 2, a lot of ocean and a few tiny bits of land will lie under a moon-blackened sun.

SpaceIL, the Israeli company that attempted but failed to put an unmanned craft on the moon earlier this year, says it will not try a second moonshot.

Welcome to the 617th Carnival of Space! The Carnival is a community of space science and astronomy writers and bloggers, who submit their best work each week for your benefit. We have a fantastic roundup today so now, on...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

NASA's bold decision to send the Apollo 8 mission around the moon - instead of sticking around Earth to do more testing - comes to the fore in an exclusive clip from the PBS special, "Chasing the Moon."

Three small cubesats were released into low Earth orbit last week as part of a program that helps countries build their first satellites.

An Earth-observation satellite spotted something leaving our planet early this morning (June 25).

Half a century after the moon shot, we remember how we achieved the impossible—and why we need to do it again --

It looks like a poster of the famous Hubble Deep Field, marked with white streaks by a child, or put away carelessly and scratched in the process. But it’s not. The white streaks aren’t accidents; they’re the paths...

Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the presence of electrically-charged molecules in space shaped like soccer balls, shedding light on the mysterious contents of the interstellar medium (ISM) -...

Summer is the season for tourists, and that includes a cosmic traveler -- one that's three times the length of a football field -- that's expected to visit Earth's neighborhood later this week.

An executive order calling for an across-the-board reduction in federal advisory groups could force NASA to shut down several of the committees that support the agency.

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory researchers designed and built two science payloads that went up with SpaceX's Falcon 9 Heavy rocket launch on June 25.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Researchers studying the behavior and neuroscience of octopuses have long suspected that the animals' arms may have minds of their own.